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There can be no doubt that iCloud is an important part of Apple’s future. It’s now less than a year old, but it has been a mixed start. The service itself seems up to the enormous data traffic it has to push, but some aspects of client-side integration are still very rough around the edges.

You…

The Mental Blog: Under the Sheets with iCloud and Core Data: How it Works

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:37:06 -0400

The Mental Blog: Under the Sheets with iCloud and Core Data: How it Works:

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Apple’s documentation for Core Data syncing via iCloud offers very little insight into how it actually works. This is probably quite deliberate: Apple sees this as an implementation detail that developers should not concern themselves with. Unfortunately, if you have no concept of what is…

U.S. Confirms Afghan Airstrike Mistake - NYTimes.com

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:28:06 -0400

U.S. Confirms Afghan Airstrike Mistake - NYTimes.com:

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The single responsibility principle applied to CSS — CSS Wizardry—CSS, Web Standards, Typography, and Grids by Harry Roberts

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:18:43 -0400

The single responsibility principle applied to CSS — CSS Wizardry—CSS, Web Standards, Typography, and Grids by Harry Roberts:

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Gretchen Reynolds on 'The First 20 Minutes' - NYTimes.com

Sat, 05 May 2012 09:04:19 -0400

Gretchen Reynolds on 'The First 20 Minutes' - NYTimes.com:

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The Subsidized Xbox 360

Thu, 03 May 2012 18:02:24 -0400

The Subsidized Xbox 360 :

parislemon:

For $99 you’ll get an Xbox 360 plus the Kinect and an Xbox Live Gold account provided you pay $15 a month for the next two years, as Tom Warren scoops for The Verge.

This seems like a pretty smart move by Microsoft — even though basic math shows that the current full-price Xbox 360 + Xbox Live subscription is a better deal. People are going to look at this and think: “Oh! $99 Xbox 360 plus Kinect! In!”

It’s the phone carrier subsidy model.

Too bad it’s only in Microsoft Stores. Or maybe that’s part of the point too?

ESPI at work: The power of Keynote | Edenspiekermann

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:01:02 -0400

ESPI at work: The power of Keynote | Edenspiekermann:

Nice overview of why you might want to use Keynote for UI design — I’ve just recently started with this workflow myself.

Keynote is an incredibly powerful design tool. Less then one year later, I now rarely (if ever) use InDesign to layout presentations, and I have started using Keynote almost exclusively for any web layouts I do. And not just UX wireframes, but full UI designs. On a recent project, I also used it for poster mock ups, banner designs and a bunch of other formats.

The Russians Used a Pencil: The Making of Frameographer

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:26:53 -0400

The Russians Used a Pencil: The Making of Frameographer:

Nice, in-depth look at the design process by the guys who built Frameographer.

"That children are now being conditioned to allow strangers to shove hands down their pants, that..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:08:23 -0400

“That children are now being conditioned to allow strangers to shove hands down their pants, that young women are subjected to genital inspections before being allowed to pursue their careers, that innocent people are adopting poses of humiliation and surrender in response to barked commands, is such a great harm to our society that no one with any sense of history could consider reducing the risk of an astronomically remote adverse event to be justification for TSA’s reprehensible actions. There’s just nothing to balance here. The harms are enormous, the benefits are make-believe. Disband the TSA, now. An articulate commenter on The Economist’s excellent Bruce Schneier / Kip Hawley TSA debate.”

- Nat Friedman - TSA debate

Pretty much sums up Journey for me

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:51:21 -0400

Pretty much sums up Journey for me

"My model of management is the Beatles. The reason I say that is because each of the key people in..."

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:25:00 -0400

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My model of management is the Beatles. The reason I say that is because each of the key people in the Beatles kept the others from going off in the directions of their bad tendencies. They sort of kept each other in check. And then when they split up, they never did anything as good… so John kept Paul from being a teenybopper and Paul kept John from drifting out into the cosmos, and it was magic. And George, in the end, I think provided a tremendous amount of soul to the group.

I don’t know what Ringo did.

— Steve Jobs in an interview from 2004

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- Good Management is Like The Beatles | The Hickensian | Hicksdesign

Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:50:31 -0400

Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve:

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Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreement

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:48:09 -0400

Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreement:

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Instagram's Buyout: How Does It Measure Up? - Waxy.org

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:29:49 -0400

Instagram's Buyout: How Does It Measure Up? - Waxy.org:

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Solving the Wrong Problem

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:57:30 -0400

Solving the Wrong Problem:

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Rusty Moyher: The Only Marketing That Counts

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:58:36 -0500

Rusty Moyher: The Only Marketing That Counts:

rustym:

On this week’s episode of Build and Analyze, Marco asked how other developers have tried marketing. Ten days ago I released my first real app, Box Cat. Here’s what I’ve tried:

Make a Video

I spent a week making a launch trailer. It was viewed 3000 times.

Email Friends

I thought some of…